PBS Kids (https://pbskids.org/) is a simple, safe online
experience for young children who are learning basic skills, and who already know
many of the characters featured on the website such as Sesame Street and Curious
George. They will enjoy playing games
with their favorite character for free.
PBS Kids is designed for children 4 and up. The site features games, videos, and other
activities that center on popular PBS live-action and animated show
characters. On the PBS Kids face page, there
is a rotating wheel with all the different characters to choose from. When you select a character it will take you
directly to their page to play educational and fun games.
This
educational site provides basic lessons involving favorite PBS TV characters in
an easy-to-use format with voice-over instructions. There is so much to do on this site including
watching TV, playing games, and activities that can be printed out to do offline.
Some of the activities included on the site are letters, numbers, and shapes for
primary and for the older students, they have skilled subjects such as language
and reading, following directions, letters, word recognition, reading, and
vocabulary.
Another great feature about this website is that they have a free app that allows adults to
monitor their child’s activity online.
The app will periodically send parents an update with the site's corresponding app, reporting all their child’s activity online. Overall,
PBS Kids is an appropriate site for children with many fun
activities, games, and TV shows to keep learning ongoing and children entertained.
*Contribution by C. Lorenzo
